Four Canadians and an American pilot died Saturday when their small plane plunged into the sea off the Honduran island of Roatan where they were vacationing, firefighters said.The plane crashed near the town of Dixon Cove, a few minutes after taking off from the island's airport, rescuers said.The dead were identified as Bradley Post, Bailey Sony, Tomy Dubler and pilot Patrick Forseth. The other Canadian pilot, Anthony Dubler, briefly survived the crash but died at the Roatan hospital of his ...

A chartered Boeing 737 jetliner with 143 people on board slid off a runway and into the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base in a thunderstorm, injuring 21 people. There were no reports of fatalities or critical injuries. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said on Twitter that all 21 people who had been taken to a hospital for treatment were listed in good condition. The plane, a 737-800 arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in ...

Czech soccer player Josef Sural from Turkey’s top tier Aytemiz Alanyaspor was killed after a minibus carrying players from the club crashed while returning from an away match, the club said on Monday. Sural, a striker for Alanyaspor and the Czech national team, died at the hospital where he and six of his teammates were taken after the crash, the club said on Twitter.

At least 29 people, most of them German tourists, were killed and 27 others injured on Wednesday when their bus veered off a steep narrow road on the Portuguese island of Madeira, authorities said. The white tourist bus – which was carrying 55 passengers and a tour guide in addition to the driver – overturned in a residential area in the coastal town of Canico at around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT), its mayor, Filipe Sousa, told reporters. TV images showed the vehicle on its side on a bank ...

At least 20 people were killed and eight injured when the double-decker bus they were traveling in caught on fire in the Peruvian capital Lima on Sunday, a spokesman for the country’s firefighters said. Witnesses said the fire started in the bus’s motor at the rear of the vehicle and quickly spread to its interior, according to the spokesman Lewis Mejia, in broadcast comments on local TV channel Canal N. The cause of the fire is under investigation, he added ...

A car rammed into a crowd in central China Friday, killing six people and injuring seven others, and the police fatally shot the driver, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The injured were taken to hospital following the early morning incident in Zaoyang City in Hubei Province, CCTV said. A video, published by Shanghai-based news outlet The Paper, shows a body covered in a blanket left on the roadside and a group trying to lift someone onto a stretcher. China has suffered a spate of similar ...

Four Americans and their Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on a remote island in Lake Turkana in a national park in northwest Kenya, police said on Monday. The aircraft came down in Central Island National Park at around 8 pm on Sunday, police said, killing all on board. The cause of the crash is yet to be determined. "Available information indicates that two helicopters had landed earlier at Labolo tented Camp on the National ...

One person was killed and dozens more were buried in the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Indonesia, the country’s disaster agency said Wednesday.Rescuers on the island of Sulawesi scrambled to find survivors in the rubble after the collapse triggered a landslide on Tuesday evening, the agency said.At least one person had been found dead and 15 others were injured in the Bolaang Mongondow region of North Sulawesi, a statement said.“When dozens of people were mining for gold at ...

A total of 21 people have been killed and 29 injured in a bus accident blamed on faulty brakes at China’s largest silver mine in the country’s north, the Emergency Management Ministry said Sunday.Meanwhile, five fishermen were missing after their boat collided with a cargo ship almost ten-times its size on Saturday afternoon in the sea off the eastern province of Zhejiang.A search was underway and further investigations into both incidents are ongoing.Saturday morning’s ...

Accidents on icy highways in central China left at least 13 people dead and dozens injured this weekend as millions of families were heading home from the Lunar New Year holiday.Five were killed shortly after 5 AM on Sunday in a 23-car pileup near the city of Anqing in Anhui province.A second accident followed three hours later near the provincial capital of Hefei after a minibus collided with a passenger vehicle.On Saturday night, two pileups involving at least 100 vehicles killed two and ...